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my_metric{hostname="foobar", user="baz"}  1.2.3
my_metric{hostname="foobar", user="baz"}  1.2
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Revision as of 16:42, 1 October 2022

Syntax used to expose metrics to prometheus.

Documentation

official docs https://prometheus.io/docs/instrumenting/exposition_formats/
text-based https://prometheus.io/docs/instrumenting/exposition_formats/#text-format-details

Comments

In addition to regular comments, doc-comments exist for

  • HELP describing metrics
  • TYPE describing metric type
# regular comment

# HELP metric_name           A description of the metric.
# TYPE metric_name counter

Metrics

my_metric 1.2

my_metric{hostname="foobar", user="baz"}  1.2